Madeleine L'Engle
Madeleine L'Engle
Madeleine L'Englewas an American writer best known for young-adult fiction, particularly the Newbery Medal-winning A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels: A Wind in the Door, National Book Award-winning A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, and An Acceptable Time. Her works reflect both her Christian faith and her strong interest in modern science...
children giving left
What can we give a child when there is nothing left?
pain giving littles
Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!
giving ifs dies
If she could give love to IT perhaps it would shrivel up and die, for she was sure that IT could not withstand love.
art laughter giving-up
It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter.
fate giving sock
If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down.
son men giving
George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, "The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his.
thinking always-trying giving
Meg, I give you your faults." "My faults!" Meg cried. "Your faults." "But I'm always trying to get rid of my faults!" "Yes," Mrs. Whatsit said. "However, I think you'll find they'll come in very handy on Camazotz.
thinking giving people
Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I disillusion them?
children thinking giving
What can we give a child when there is nothing left? All we have, I think, is the truth, the truth that will set him free, not limited, provable truth, but the open, growing, evolving truth that is not afraid.
laughter laughing giving
An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy.
giving understanding needs
Friends--or lovers--are not always available to each other. Inner turmoils can cause us to be unhearing when someone needs us, to need to receive understanding when we should be giving understanding.
art mean giving
As I listen to the silence, I learn that my feelings about art and my feelings about the Creator of the Universe are inseparable. To try to talk about art and about Christianity is for me one and the same thing, and it means attempting to share the meaning of my life, what gives it, for me, its tragedy and its glory.
love-is light giving
what I must learn is to love with all of me, giving all of me, and yet remain whole in myself. Any other kind of love is too demanding of the other; it takes, rather than gives. To love so completely that you lose yourself in another person is not good. You are giving a weight, not the sense of lightness and light that loving someone should give.
art names giving
Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all art; to give a name to the cosmos, we see despite all the chaos.